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15.6 Planets Beyond the Solar System Planets orbiting other stars are called extrasolar planets. Until 1995, whether or not extrasolar planets existed was unknown. Since then more than 300 have been discovered.

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The long-term stability of planetary systems Long-term stability of planetary systems The problem: A point mass is surrounded by N > 1 much smaller masses on nearly circular, nearly coplanar orbits. Is

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Artificial Satellites Earth & Sky Name: Introduction In this lab, you will have the opportunity to find out when satellites may be visible from the RPI campus, and if any are visible during the activity,

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Name: Earth 110 Exploration of the Solar System Assignment 1: Celestial Motions and Forces Due in class Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2015 Why are celestial motions and forces important? They explain the world around

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Some Basic Principles from Astronomy The Big Question One of the most difficult things in every physics class you will ever take is putting what you are learning in context what is this good for? how do

Section.1 Radian Measure Another way of measuring angles is with radians. This allows us to write the trigonometric functions as functions of a real number, not just degrees. A central angle is an angle

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Kepler s Laws and Gravity Ian Morison Observations of a supernova. Tycho made detailed observations of the supernova of 1572 now called Tycho s supernova. It was initially brighter than Venus and was visible

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Newton, Einstein, and Gravity I have not been able to discover the cause of those properties of gravity from phenomena, and I feign no hypotheses...and to us it is enough that gravity does really exist,

Giant Molecular Clouds http://www.astro.ncu.edu.tw/irlab/projects/project.htm Galactic Open Clusters Galactic Structure GMCs The Solar System and its Place in the Galaxy In Encyclopedia of the Solar System

Kinesthetic Solar System Kinesthetic Solar System Demonstration Materials Students Pictures or signs representing each body in the solar system, including comets, and asteroids. Large outside open area,

The Sun Solar Factoids (I) The sun, a medium-size star in the milky way galaxy, consisting of about 300 billion stars. (Sun Earth-Relationships) A gaseous sphere of radius about 695 500 km (about 109 times

Exam 1 Ast 4 - Chapter 2 - Newton s Laws Exam 1 is scheduled for the week of Feb 19th Bring Pencil Scantron 882-E (available in the Bookstore) A scientific calculator (you will not be allowed to use you

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Lecture 3: Our Slar System The Planets What is a planet? Overview: What is a planet? Finally defined in August 2006 by the Internatinal Astrnmical Unin (IAU)! Why? In 2005, a bdy slightly larger than Plut

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CHAPTER 4 1 The Nine Planets SECTION A Family of Planets BEFORE YOU READ After you read this section, you should be able to answer these questions: What are the parts of our solar system? When were the

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